Best Storyteller Quotes

279 Storyteller quotes by 238 unique authors

And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things… — Michelle Yeoh
If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger… — The Ultimate Warrior
Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire… — Ajay Naidu
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will… — Rabih Alameddine
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts. — Marion Dane Bauer
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her… — Unknown Author
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try… — Orson Scott Card
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic. — Bat for Lashes
I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions… — James Patterson
For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival. — N. Scott Momaday
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. — Chris Ware
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned… — Carmen Agra Deedy
The best teachers are the best storytellers. — Frank Smith
I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I… — Judy Collins
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is… — Doris Lessing
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a… — William Trevor
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. — Tanith Lee
I like to think of myself as a storyteller, — Kate DiCamillo
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a… — Jackie Collins
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much… — Nicholas Meyer
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks

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